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So why the crap do sorcerers, the arcane backline spellcasters have a mechanic that lets them use strength modifier for their AC but no other class does ? Your great-grandmother fucked a dinosaur, so you're covered in muscly scales. That's what makes the sorcerer unique. Except for the dragonborn. ...

Ring of Wizardry I gives you your bread and butter spells (Silent Image, Charm Person, Disguise Self) from the Beguiler side as much as you care to use them, and allows you to prepare most of the utility wizard spells ( Mount, Magic Missile, Feather Fall as an immediate action, ect.). So would 6 Me...

Here's the list of spell descriptors they use in Arcana Unearthed: Descriptors: Acid, air, cold, curse, darkness, dragon, earth, electricity, faen, fear, fire, force, giant, language-dependent, light, litorian, mind-affecting, negative energy, plant, positive energy, psionic, sibeccai, sonic, telepo...

Their target markets are "3.5-ish players" (I don't see why hating 4e is a requirement) and, to a much lesser extent "non-3.5 players who like their products as reading material". Their whole reason for starting this is because they didn't like 4.0. So I'd say hating it is a req...

Paizo has literally targeted a niche of a niche market, specifically, 3.5 players that don't like 4e, the folks who are a fan of their modules and their magazine fanboys, well as people who have decided they're personally offended by some aspect of WotC's business model (naturally there is some ove...

Nah, they're simply aware that most of their audience doesn't care. Like most editions of D&D, its functional enough for most of the people who play it. It honestly doesn't matter if its perfect, just that its good enough to roughly model the kind of game they want to play. I agree. By definiti...

Parthenon wrote:I'm wondering whether all the iconic characters are supposed to be of the same power level and go around in the same group.

I think that's ascribing too much thought to the process.

The only thing I can think of is a psion who hangs around in songbird form all day. But that's not any worse than a wild shaped druid.

In the Avengers universe, Thor and Hulk pretty much endorse the existing governments by allowing them to persist. Thor, maybe, but the Hulk? If you read old Hulk comics (or the Thing or any other strong-but-invulnerable hero), a "simple" knock-out gas bomb is usually enough to stop him (w...

As such, on a 19-20 threat range, he can expect to be forcing a saving throw against the stun effect due to a successful critical about five times in every four rounds... by which time, anything actually waiting to fail said saving throw is probably dead. Why would you need to wait for a failed sav...

If I've followed correctly, it isn't a magical mystery miss chance, it's a chance that your attacks will miss. If you've got a 40% chance of missing the target entirely in a straight attack-roll-versus-armour-class comparison, then 40% of the rolls you make to confirm a crit will result in no crit....

If you have a threat range of 4 numbers, you critical on 20% of your hits. If you hit three times, your chance of criticalling (and thus stunning) at least once is 48.8%. But of course with your attacks having some sort of miss chance to begin with, your chance of stunning at leas once is actually ...

Hogarth, the point is that the existence of a feat that gives a stun that 90% of all enemies will pass all the time or be immune to, and will only trigger on 10% of all attacks, maybe less, does not: 1) Justify expanding your crit range by 1 at the cost of 1 feat and -2 to -10 damage on every arrow...

Most of the feats that did that status effect stuff required high levels to pull off, 12+ I think is when they're available at all. Which is crap, because even if the statuses weren't allowed saves (I think they are), the requisite critical means they're resisting it better than with a save. I'm no...

The Ring of Wizardry hack is the Beguiler 1 / Wizard (min) / Ultimate Magus 10. You get 19 CL in 20 levels, and the Ring doubles spells from both sides of casting (which in turn fuels you metamagic for free). Even in that case, a Ring of Wizardry is barely worth it compared to Pearls of Power (and ...

Most of the feats that did that status effect stuff required high levels to pull off, 12+ I think is when they're available at all. Which is crap, because even if the statuses weren't allowed saves (I think they are), the requisite critical means they're resisting it better than with a save. I'm no...

Most of the feats that did that status effect stuff required high levels to pull off, 12+ I think is when they're available at all. Which is crap, because even if the statuses weren't allowed saves (I think they are), the requisite critical means they're resisting it better than with a save. The fe...

Any way, the Ranger doesn't look that bad, well compared to the fail fighter and bimbo blaster sorcerer anyway. Stats seem okay, spelllist is mostly okay. He took the ranged path with a two handed weapon for back up, solid. Feats don't look horrible... he- oh goddamn it, why is he using a light cro...

And even If you really, really have your heart set on a xbow for some damn reason, why the hell a light xbow? You can't full attack with a heavy xbow, even with Rapid Reload. Well, unless it's a repeating xbow. Also there's something really funny about a feat that actually lowers your attack bonus ...

Not to derail this thread with Pathfinder news, but their Ranger preview is up:
Ranger preview

Caster level = class level - 3, etc.

Sure, if you know you'll need certain spell spammed over and over, a wizard can prepare it... but how often do you know that? How many do play a wizard, and have all those spells ready when they need them? How many know in advance what comes up, so they can prepare the best spells? Again, it's a ma...

Ice9 wrote: Now scrolls do work, and the Wizard certainly has the edge there, but IMO they're not the god of perfect-spell-for-the-occasion-having that they're often depicted as.

As Lago pointed out, leaving blank spell slots is an important step in having the right spell for every occasion.

Other software for doing the same thing:
KloogeWerks (costs $)
Fantasy Grounds (costs $)

I'm actually kind of sad about this, because every online tabletop (thing where you can put miniatures and move them around) I have seen thus far has completely sucked. I've seen Gametable, Maptool, and OpenRPG. Gametable was almost good but has a couple show-stopping issues, Maptool is just retard...

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